Acoustic and Perceptive Studies of Chinese Learners Producing Three Basic French Intonation Patterns

Études acoustique et perceptive du transfert intonatif du chinois mandarin au français dans l'apprentissage phonétique du Français Langue Étrangère (FLE)

Lei Xi (1) , Claire Pillot-Loiseau (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

The productions of French final neutral declarative, polar question with "est-ce que" and major continuation by seven Chinese learners of French (CL) and six French native speakers (NS) were perceptually (perception tests for two of these intonation patterns) and acoustically analysed (difference between F0 ending and F0 beginning a stress group (F0-diff); F0 range in stress group). The "est-ce que" questions produced by the NS were perceived as an affirmation, those of the CL as a question. The major continuations of the NS were perceived as a question, those of the CL as an affirmation and a question. For declarative, the CL did a falling contour with a F0 range too small or too large compared to the NS; for rising contour, the same F0-diff and F0 range characterized the polar and the total questions of the CL. Concerning major continuation, unlike NS, CL sometimes perform rising and falling contours.

Mots clés: L2 intonation acquisition; French; Mandarin Chinese; perception; acoustic

Domaines: Linguistique

Lei Xi, Claire Pillot-Loiseau. Acoustic and Perceptive Studies of Chinese Learners Producing Three Basic French Intonation Patterns. The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aug 2019, Melbourne, Australia. pp.2263-2267. ⟨hal-02271050⟩